Derek Felska
Cloud Consultant at Broadwing
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Felska is a Cloud Consultant and seasoned technology leader with over eight years of hands-on experience across cloud, networking, data center, and infrastructure disciplines. He has held senior roles at AWS and led enterprise technology organizations as a VP and Chief Architect, bringing practical experience in EC2 Spot optimization, large-scale WAN/LAN engineering, and complex datacenter migrations. A former founder who ran his own consulting firm, Derek combines C-level strategic advising with day-to-day technical execution and team building. Based in New York, he thrives on bringing order to chaotic environments and has a knack for translating business needs into reliable, cost-effective infrastructure solutions. An eclectic background in film and fine arts suggests a creative approach to problem solving that complements his technical rigor.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Film and Television, BFA Film and Television at New York UniversityFine Arts, Fine Arts at Southwest Minnesota State University
Github Skills (15)
kinesis-stream10
amazon-ecs10
aws9
serverless9
lambda9
aws-sam8
aws-lambda8
serverless-applications8
aws-fargate8
serverless-framework8
aws-dynamodb7
amazon4
amazon-ec23
terraform2
spot-instances2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dfelska/aws-serverless-workshops
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:110 pushes in 10 days
serverless-applicationsserverlessaws-lambdawildset-up
dfelska/basicstation
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Basics™ Station Packet Forward protocol using Docker
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 day
5g4gdockerbadukstation
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